15 to make hearts shudder,to make many stumble and fall.I’ve set the slaughtering swordagainst all their gates.Oh! It’s crafted to flash like lightning,polished for slaughter!
16 Stab again and again! Plunge right,plunge left, wherever your edge goes.
17 It is I who strike hand to hand!I’ll satisfy my wrath! I, the Lord, have spoken.
18 The Lord’s word came to me:
19 You, human one, mark two roads for the coming of the sword of the king of Babylon. They should diverge from a single country. Where the road to the city begins, set up a sign,
20 and point out the way for the sword to come: "To Rabbah of the Ammonites" or "To Judah in its stronghold Jerusalem."
21 The king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road where the two roads begin and performs his divinations. He shakes the arrows, consults the divine images, and inspects the liver.